Tina's Weblog

First Day of School!

Tina — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 22:09:22 +0000

In 1997 Mom and I drove around northern California looking at many of the different places I’ve lived in my life. Some of them I remembered, others were just stories I’d heard many times. One of the things we wanted to do was find the house in Eureka we lived in when I started kindergarten in 1963. We had a photo of me in the driveway of our house (looking across the street), and we knew the address. Well, the street had been renamed, so then we just drove up and down looking for the houses across the street in the photo. Finally we found it! Mom took my photo in almost the same spot (we didn’t want to get as close in their driveway as the original shot was taken!) as that photo many years ago.

Finished the Front Today!

Tina — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 22:15:03 +0000

Left: Andy guiding and Richard and Garland pushing the tin in behind the electricity attachments.

Above: holding the tin for Andy to screw it down.

Andy holding the tin, Richard guiding, and Garland marking where to cut out the door.

Richard screwing down the last piece of tin on the front!

And here’s the front side tinned! There’s still a lot of trim work to do, but the tin is on!

More Barn Work Today

Tina — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:12:29 +0000

Left: Jeff, Andy and Richard holding and screwing/nailing stuff on the back side of the barn.

Above: Garland and Richard cutting the tin to the exact measurements.

The backside of the barn about 3/4 done

Putting the last bits of trim up. Note the nice vent Richard found used for $25!

Sky Photography Day!

Tina — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:13:18 +0000

First, the sunrise was glorious!

Then, we could see the thunderheads building mid-afternoon for the storms that came later.

The lightening started up and there was still some daylight leftover, so I ran out to try and catch some lightening. I didn’t take time to set up the tripod, so couldn’t hold it perfect. I did get this shot with the twin bolts.

And this one has a little bolt to the far left. I just held down the shutter for continuous shooting hoping I might accidentally catch a lightening bolt.

This was the oddest shot! This is an untouched photo, not manipulated in photoshop! Mike and Beth, my pro photog friends, said I must have accidentally touched the zoom while doing my continuous shots along with the handheld low-light shot complications.

This one doesn’t have the degree of fade/rotation of the previous, but it’s pretty cool anyway.

Working on the Barn

Tina — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:15:37 +0000

This morning I took some photos of the barn just before we started on the renovation! It’s a GREAT old barn, and we are going to put red tin on it over the old, faded, shrunken oak siding boards.

Above: reflection on pond with small "pond fog."

Right: "artsy" photo of the east side of the barn. I didn’t notice until I looked at the photo there was a little lizard sunning himself on the left side of this photo!

Here’s Andy, Jeff and Richard putting nailers up on the south side of the barn.

And here they are working on the north side of the barn. They finished this side by the end of the day.

The Moon and Jupiter

Tina — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:47:19 +0000

Tonight the moon and Jupiter had a close encounter a little past midnight, and I stayed up until midnight trying to get a good photo. First of all, they insinuated it would look like two moons. Well, "they" were exaggerating a lot! More than a lot! It looked like the moon and a big star! But, it was fun. Click here for more information.

11:10 pm ; no zoom, slower shutter so you can see the trees.

11:46 pm; Jupiter at the bottom of the photo, zoomed in.

11:47 pm; zoomed all the way out so you can see the relationship. Jupiter not easily visible on this smaller image, but click on it to see the larger one and you can see Jupiter just below the moon. Doesn’t really look much closer than it did at 11:10 does it?

Glorious Morning!

Tina — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 14:09:15 +0000

This morning was lovely, and I just had to work outside for a little while to enjoy it!

I take . . .

Tina — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:19:15 +0000

I take Aspirin for the headache caused by the Zyrtec I take for the hayfever I got from Relenza for the uneasy stomach from the Ritalin I take for the short attention span caused by the Scopederm TX I take for the motion sickness I got from the Lomotil I take for the diarrhea caused by the Zenikal for the uncontrolled weight gain from the Paxil I take for the anxiety from Zocor I take for my high cholesterol because exercise, a good diet, and regular chiropractic care are just too much trouble!

[I don't really take these drugs, but I know of people who do take drug after drug to counter the effects of other drugs, which are mostly unnecessary! Think about it people!]

Anniversary Fishing!

Tina — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 02:33:42 +0000

Richard and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary with two days of fishing at Bennett Spring. I caught more fish than usual, and Richard had some of his best fishing ever! We had a room with a mini-kitchen and cooked a major feast of fresh fish! Life is great!

Richard catching a fish!

I tried some different settings for this watershot and then tinkered with it in Photoshop.

The 4th Annual Honeymoon Float was a Great Success (again!) (of course!)

Tina — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 03:01:43 +0000

Here’s the group at the 4th Annual Honeymoon Float Trip! Click here for more pictures! It just gets better and better every year. This year we had a great group of 19 people (we sure did miss Garland who couldn’t make it this year), 2 dogs and super weather. After a string of really hot days and nights, today was just 89 degrees! It was warm enough to enjoy swimming, but cool enough so we didn’t bake in the canoes.

Remember, you are all invited to the 5th Annual Honeymoon Float to be held August 21, 2011 (the 3rd Sunday in August)!